Data animation shows the unprecedented development of China’s rail system
Less than 20 years ago, only three cities in China had subways. If you didn’t live in Beijing, Guangzhou, or Shanghai, underground travel was a complete mystery. Today, there are more than 60 metro lines (paywall) in 25 cities, making subterranean transit accessible to some 291 million people....

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Data Science Articles & Videos

Meow GeneratorI experimented with generating faces of cats using Generative adversarial networks (GAN). I wanted to try DCGAN, WGAN and WGAN-GP in low and higher resolutions. I used the CAT dataset (yes this is a real thing!) for my training sample...

Using Deep Learning to Reconstruct High-Resolution AudioInspired by the successful applications of deep learning to image super-resolution, there is recent interest in using deep neural networks to accomplish this upsampling on raw audio waveforms. After prototyping several methods, I focused on implementing and customizing recently published research from the 2017 International Conference on Learning Representations...

ai.bythebay.io: Chris Moody, AI at Stitch FixI'll review applied deep learning techniques we use at Stitch Fix to understand our client's personal style. Interpretable deep learning models are not only useful to scientists, but lead to better client experiences -- no one wants to interact with a black box virtual assistant. We do this in several ways...

Be smarter. Be seetdWe have built upon our previous seating arrangement efforts and developed a new seating allocation tool - “seetd”. It works by casting the allocation of people to seats (or offices) as an optimization problem, with several different cost-terms which we will discuss below. The ultimate goal is to then find an arrangement which minimises our overall cost function...

General Electric Builds an AI Workforce
As part of its shift toward high-tech businesses, the 125-year-old company is threading artificial intelligence throughout its operations, starting with its scientists....

Noisy Networks for ExplorationWe introduce NoisyNet, a deep reinforcement learning agent with parametric noise added to its weights, and show that the induced stochasticity of the agent's policy can be used to aid efficient exploration...

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Training & Resources

Effectively Using Matplotlib
Now that I have taken the time to learn some of these tools and how to use them with matplotlib, I have started to see matplotlib as an indispensable tool. This post will show how I use matplotlib and provide some recommendations for users getting started or users who have not taken the time to learn matplotlib...

Probabilistic programming from scratchAn introduction to probabilistic programming that neither assumes nor uses statistics, and should be accessible to anyone who can code a little. Bayesian inference without the math or any libraries if you like...